Word: turmoils
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...says she has no plans to return to Haiti, and she is even planning to bring her mother to Cambridge and she hopes someday that her siblings will join her. And while Randolph's story mirrors the hard-scrabble existence for Haitians in Cambridge, political turmoil at home ensures that this recent immigrant wave is here for the long haul...
...however, Cote d'Ivoire has undergone accelerating political and economic instability. Henri Konan Bedie, then president of the National Assembly, succeeded Houphouet and continued his predecessor's autocratic ruling style; winning election in 1995 following an opposition party boycott and a period of intense violence and unrest. Turmoil rose within the army due to unpaid salaries and poor living conditions, and student riots were brutally crushed by the Bedie regime...
Kerry, a Yale graduate who in his 16th year as senator has become one of his party's best-known names, acknowledged that there have been mistakes made on both sides in the election turmoil in Florida...
...explain what was happening. As we looked at the papers and TV, I told her she should soak it all in because she was witnessing a moment that would someday be part of her own children's history texts. At first she seemed worried by all the turmoil. I found myself saying that the surprising thing was that there was really no reason to worry. What was most amazing about that day, after people awoke to discover that our election had not produced a result, was that there were no tanks in the street, the dollar didn't collapse, mobs...
...Rampell says regardless of how the turmoil plays out, we may never know the true story behind Florida's election chaos...